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  • Think what would happen if one of the girls from Colored Town accused Chase Andrews of assault and attempted rape.†   (source)
  • She loved her papa, Hans Hubermann, and even her foster mother, despite the abusages and verbal assaults.†   (source)
  • I arbitrarily punch buttons on the control board and end up hopping from foot to foot as alternating jets of icy cold and steaming hot water assault me.†   (source)
  • When I reached the film's final scene (the assault on the French Castle), I grew anxious again, wondering what would happen next.†   (source)
  • The harsh light of day and the blistering heat assault him as he walks down a ramp to the ground.†   (source)
  • Mom threw the light switch, and we kids all started the assault.†   (source)
  • He bought me my first rope and ice ax when I was eight years old and led me into the Cascade Range to make an assault on the South Sister, a gentle ten-thousand-foot volcano not far from our Oregon home.†   (source)
  • One officer, upon learning that another guard had shown leniency to captives, assaulted the guard with a sword.†   (source)
  • Under the pitiless double assaults of her mother and grandmother, the cottage where she lived was always squeaking clean, mopped and swept and scoured into limp submission.†   (source)
  • The Lizard Men don't have enough one-man flying machines to transport a sufficient assault force to take the city.†   (source)
  • At the power level available to current experimental prototypes, the most that a full assault on Judgment Day could do is to make the people inside feel dizzy and nauseous.†   (source)
  • Anytime there's even a hint of the government limiting the ability to buy assault rifles, the public goes crazy, saying they're trying to take away our freedom.†   (source)
  • With blood on his lip and fruit on the floor, the assaulted man responded in kind.†   (source)
  • He watches the SS officers walk the length of the line, assaulting the naked prisoners with the ends of their weapons, offering insults and cruel laughter.†   (source)
  • A man in uniform ...assaulted me.†   (source)
  • As soon as we hit the Bronx bricks, our senses were assaulted.†   (source)
  • Something within their territory has frightened them—the intrusion of an enemy, the assault of a dominant animal, a startling noise—and set off a flight reaction.†   (source)
  • If I said yes, she'd let me be; if I said no, she would assault me again.†   (source)
  • She said she wanted to live somewhere removed, detached, where neighbors wouldn't stare at her belly, point at her, snicker, or, worse yet, assault her with insincere kindnesses.†   (source)
  • When Langdon reached the landing at the bottom of the stairs, the unmistakable smell of linseed oil and plaster dust assaulted his nostrils.†   (source)
  • Your assault charge was dropped—is that correct?†   (source)
  • It assaults the cobblestones, the houses, the windows.†   (source)
  • And I knew that if I'd been with him, I never would have gotten assaulted.†   (source)
  • The Hab canvas rippled under the brutal assault as the internal supports bent and shivered with each gust.†   (source)
  • He asked Hill to tell the jury about his fondness for guns—Hill had two pistols and four rifles—and about the time he had assaulted another boy and the boy's father and knocked their door down.†   (source)
  • Not a day goes by that we don't think back to when you assaulted Peter.†   (source)
  • She would probably be sent home; we weren't supposed to physically assault another Selected.†   (source)
  • In an attempt to arm you against Voldemort's assaults on your mind, I arranged Occlumency lessons with Professor Snape.'†   (source)
  • If you determine that he is guilty of something else—of hatred, of assault, of manslaughter, of murder in self-defense, of coldness, of passion, of second-degree murder—none of that will be relevant.†   (source)
  • Aunt Beast stood quietly against the assault.†   (source)
  • This must have been Annie's doing, assaulting her with it again.†   (source)
  • The Kinnow players never recovered from that assault, although they did manage to move the ball into our end of the field.†   (source)
  • Then he said, "I am arresting you for assaulting a police officer."†   (source)
  • We told the police that this weird guy was trying to assault us, and you should have seen it: About twenty undercover guys (even a guy I thought was an old homeless man asleep on a bench) jumped on Norman and dragged him, screaming, off to the mental ward!†   (source)
  • 'I can't believe they're charging me with assault,' Loomis told Alex through the bars of the holding cell.†   (source)
  • There was an AK47 assault rifle that Dick broke down into the stock group, the barrel, the receiver, the bolt—and so forth.†   (source)
  • His group could be invaluable in an assault like this.†   (source)
  • Six immediately rolls over, managing to send an elbow straight into the same eye that she assaulted a few minutes ago.†   (source)
  • This nightly assault had become such a regular part of their lives that they'd ceased to think of it as something terrifying—in fact, the photograph I'd seen of it in Miss Peregrine's album had been labeled Our beautiful display.†   (source)
  • He braced himself for the assault.†   (source)
  • In reality there would have been, as always, too few, except that the last act, a mass assault against suicidally-defended Japan, never took place.†   (source)
  • In the single hour we spend greeting children and shopkeepers, I see the Silvers assault or aggravate dozens of Red servants, all trying to do their jobs.†   (source)
  • THE ASSAULT OF THE EQUALLY EVIL LUNCHROOM ZOMBIE NERDS†   (source)
  • WANTED FOR ASSAULT, ARSON, THEFT, DESTRUCTION OF MILITARY PROPERTY, AND HINDERING THE WAR EFFORT 200,000 REPUBLIC NOTES FOR INFORMATION LEADING TO ARREST†   (source)
  • The one who led the assault on Mount Othrys.†   (source)
  • If divorce had presented itself as the dastardly antithesis of all this, it could easily have been cast onto the other pan of the scales, along with betrayal, illness, thieving, assault and mendacity.†   (source)
  • Out of nowhere, a really nasty smell assaulted my nostrils — the stench of a gas station restroom sorely in need of attention.†   (source)
  • The crack addict, who was being wheeled into an ambulance by now, looked up and identified Rameck, Train, and the others as the ones who had assaulted him.†   (source)
  • Hard as Tita tried to stem the memories that assaulted her and caused her to make more mistakes, holding a large sausage in her hands she couldn't keep from remembering the summer night when they all slept outside on the patio.†   (source)
  • The assault on the summit must wait while the three boys accepted this challenge.†   (source)
  • The man's voice, even louder than before, was like an assault.†   (source)
  • The fine silk of Kai's shirt was clinging to his back and a trickle of sweat had begun down his neck—in the evening the welcome pad would be sheltered by the palace's stone walls, but now it was under full assault by the late August sun.†   (source)
  • Underneath it was an M16 semiautomatic assault rifle.†   (source)
  • Because being assaulted with maxi pads is a great way to win friends and influence people.†   (source)
  • But no one was paying attention to Butler — too busy watching their comrades, making sure they weren't alone in the assault.†   (source)
  • By early afternoon, we were getting ready to head back, but we were assaulted by heavy fire coming from a building up the street.†   (source)
  • We got fragments of information from time to time and pieced together that the Allies had landed at Normandy and were mounting an assault in the west.†   (source)
  • I had been alone one day before the rape at the very spot where Karen had been assaulted.†   (source)
  • I'm doing my best not to seem utterly terrified, but it's difficult to stay calm when you have to strip down practically to your underwear in front of giants equipped with automatic assault weapons.†   (source)
  • John, you assaulted Kevin.†   (source)
  • You are Amazing Amy, and you've survived a brutal kidnapping involving repeated assaults.†   (source)
  • As if in response to his brief selfconfidence, the Shade's smothering blackness assaulted him anew.†   (source)
  • As PFCs or Spec 4s, most of them were common grunts and carried the standard M-16 gas-operated assault rifle.†   (source)
  • Maybe they realize what they're doing and it's against the law: assault with a dangerous weapon.†   (source)
  • The sound of orb generators exploding on Alyss' conjured army still assaulted the Alyssians' ears, but it stopped almost as soon as they entered the fortress.†   (source)
  • Shootings, assaults and skirmishes between the barrios are direct results of police activity.†   (source)
  • On the third day of the revolution, Kassad landed the Denieve's single assault boat in the main courtyard of the Grand Mosque at Mashhad.†   (source)
  • But only one plunged forward to meet the assault head-on.†   (source)
  • I was no longer worried that hired killers were going to leap out and assault me.†   (source)
  • All my senses were assaulted.†   (source)
  • Like most mothers, she wielded tremendous power and my staunch resolve would crumble like a sandcastle before her frontal assaults, which were like tidal waves.†   (source)
  • In his masterful novel APassage to India (1924), E. M. Forster has as his central incident a possible assault in a cave.†   (source)
  • He can't tell me what to do or what might work best for Nathaniel, but he says it is not unheard of for psychiatrists to advise loved ones to call the police and claim they've been threatened or assaulted.†   (source)
  • Over and over a single image assaulted me: Colton being wheeled away, his arms stretched out, screaming for me to save him.†   (source)
  • No, no. The niece is insulted or assaulted—allegedly.†   (source)
  • I understand that the Morrigan and my Elder sister Bastet are planning an assault on my Shadowrealm, the girl said grimly.†   (source)
  • I didn't assault anyone.†   (source)
  • The island had come under repeated assault, prompting a resurfacing of Olmsted's old anger about the compulsion of clients to tinker with his landscapes.†   (source)
  • d'...of all the insults, of all the assaults on the dignity of a woman," she said to Bellingham, "this, sir, is the lowest, the most base.†   (source)
  • The two men on the fifth floor continued to pop out, spray at Delta's assault force, then pop back inside.†   (source)
  • But in the midst of all that thunder, all that news assaulting our ears, we heard not a word.†   (source)
  • And suddenly he found that he didn't like the Overlook so well anymore, as if it wasn't wasps that had stung his son, wasps that had miraculously lived through the bug bomb assault, but the hotel itself.†   (source)
  • The second man lay on the floor and shaded his eyes from the light and gathered his strength, a knockoff Russian assault rifle by his side.†   (source)
  • He was asked whether he offered any assault against the troops.†   (source)
  • Army Rangers are a big assault force—if you want a large target, say an airfield, taken down, that's their thing.†   (source)
  • The British press called the HeLa hybrids an "assault on life," and portrayed Harris as a mad scientist.†   (source)
  • No sexual assault, or at least none that they could confirm, because of her condition.†   (source)
  • I think of it more as an assault.†   (source)
  • The inside of the Kennedy was much like the interior of the USS Guam, the helicopter assault ship Ryan had been assigned to during his brief military career.†   (source)
  • Therefore, the Metaverse is wide open and undefended, like airports in the days before bombs and metal detectors, like elementary schools in the days before maniacs with assault rifles.†   (source)
  • Blanca and her new husband spent their wedding night in the honeymoon suite of the best hotel in the capital, which Trueba had filled with flowers in the hope of winning his daughter's forgiveness for the string of assaults to which he had subjected her during the preceding months.†   (source)
  • The six of us, dressed in our light combat gear-flat desert khakis with Oakley assault boots-stepped outside into a light, warm breeze.†   (source)
  • The Fugees seemed to gain confidence from the assaults.†   (source)
  • When the case came to trial, Goetz was easily acquitted on charges of assault and attempted murder.†   (source)
  • Yes, Seward had been a target, but the viciousness of the assault shocked and revolted Booth.†   (source)
  • On Saturdays the poor mulattoes, along with all their domestic animals and kitchen utensils, tumultuously abandoned their hovels of cardboard and tin on the edges of the swamps and in jubilant assault took over the rocky beaches of the colonial district.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, he did not exclude the possibility that Harriet Vanger had run away, maybe heading for Stockholm, and that something had befallen her subsequently—drugs, prostitution, an assault, or an accident pure and simple.†   (source)
  • There was no telling what Tenorio would do at this insult; everyone knew he was crazy enough to assault the priest.†   (source)
  • THIS MAY BE CONSTRUED AS A "TECHNICAL ASSAULT."†   (source)
  • And Paul realized she was speaking for his benefit, that she wanted him to make a quick acceptance of this assault on his nostrils.†   (source)
  • By the end of that day of our first edition, I really did consider locking myself in the school furnace room until Dale was about a month into his first three-to-five for first degree assault on some other kid.†   (source)
  • Mondo's dad was named Montez, and he was in prison for assaulting a police officer, and Eddie's dad was named Owens, and he died a long time ago, knifed by a man who said he cheated at cards.†   (source)
  • I had just accused him of assault, after all.†   (source)
  • She stopped assaulting her food to look at him, her gaze unwavering.†   (source)
  • As expected, the gossip fence had instantly informed their parents about our assault on the tipple.†   (source)
  • The smell of fake lemon cleaner and bleach assaulted my nostrils as the sheet settled around me.†   (source)
  • This view was contradicted with such energy that Mr Charles, quite aside from worrying he would become the next focus of the gentlemen's attention, actually thought himself in danger of physical assault.†   (source)
  • The arrangement was not only practical but avoided confrontation, the sexual assault motif of front-to-back parking in teeming city streets.†   (source)
  • One is never too young to fight for our constitutional rights, which are under constant assault from rightwing forces.†   (source)
  • Before the factions were introduced, and the serums with them, the experiments all used to be under near-constant assault from within.†   (source)
  • I mean, this was a case of assault with bodily injury.†   (source)
  • Burger King's assault on the supremacy of the Mc-Donald's french fry, launched in 1997 with a $70 million advertising campaign, was driven in large part by the huge markups that are possible with fries.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, the building was reduced and all of the terrorists in it were destroyed by the assault force.†   (source)
  • They were being assaulted by the saxophonist who perhaps no longer wanted their love and merely hurled his outrage at them with the same contemptuous, pagan pride with which he humped the air.†   (source)
  • A young man in a beret and military fatigues knelt on one knee in the grass, holding a Russian assault rifle, watching us with mild interest.†   (source)
  • Akku Yadav continued his assaults.†   (source)
  • Must have dozed off because I wake to an assault of midmorning sun and, somewhere close (outside?)†   (source)
  • The Twins narrowed their eyes at him and sucked air to begin a new assault, which, thankfully, my roommate interrupted.†   (source)
  • The sight of instruments lying helter-skelter—on the patient, next to the patient, on the operating table—assaulted her senses.†   (source)
  • He was being held for involuntary manslaughter and assaulting a peace officer.†   (source)
  • For example, three of the men, throughout their lives, had been frequently involved in fights which were not ordinary altercations, and which would have become homicidal assaults if not stopped by others.†   (source)
  • You just almost got arrested for assault.†   (source)
  • Of course we had the usual list of guys in for car theft, pimping, mail theft, murder, manslaughter, assault, burglary, larceny, arson, explosives, drug possession, drug dealing.†   (source)
  • Then the man in black launched his greatest assault.†   (source)
  • Cedric's rear-guard assault-based on acing more advanced, higher-credit classes in the past two years-wasn't enough to overcome a few B's he got in ninth grade.†   (source)
  • The force of her sudden assault caught him off guard.†   (source)
  • We ain't going on a cowhunt, we're launching an assault.†   (source)
  • When the men fell back, after the slaughter of the first assault, he led them up the hill twice again.†   (source)
  • Some years before Bailey and I arrived in town, a man was hunted down for assaulting white womanhood.†   (source)
  • Therefore, any criticism of him amounted to an assault on the already downtrodden people he served.†   (source)
  • So had the rate of just about every other sort of crime, from assault to car theft.†   (source)
  • Yossarian slithered into his own clothes between assaults.†   (source)
  • I distinctly remember that I was not afraid, because no matter how much red hatred clouded his eyes, how much Jim Beam or beer or homemade whiskey assaulted his brain, he never touched me.†   (source)
  • There were two suicides and four attempted suicides, numerous accounts of assault, three reported rapes, and a hit-and-run.†   (source)
  • After a brief moment of initial hesitation and retreat, Mr. McDaniels responded to phantasm with a frontal assault, exhibiting extraordinary determination and—oh dear, how should I put this—ferocity!†   (source)
  • Khanum Shaheen and the other office workers took up the assault.†   (source)
  • She hastened to add that the massages "are on the upand-up," and laughs when friends ask whether she was "attacked"—sexually assaulted—during her stay.†   (source)
  • How I was pretty sure the sexual assault on the corpse, the bloody jacket, the missing rings, added up to a single, obsessed killer.†   (source)
  • Two years earlier, Nick had represented Marvis Lang when he pleaded guilty to drug trafficking and assault with a deadly weapon.†   (source)
  • You have assaulted the police.†   (source)
  • Kennedy carefully left out any mention of U.S. financing, training, and planning of a rebelled assault.†   (source)
  • Three were carried away by the first assault of the flood; the others were now hurled into the water by their horses and overwhelmed.†   (source)
  • Macon was so shocked at being assaulted he could not speak.†   (source)
  • A Nisei man had been assaulted on the street in Seattle.†   (source)
  • With a kind of wry envy, Hazel realized that Bigwig was actually looking forward to meeting the Efrafan assault.†   (source)
  • That is the area where you were assaulted; is that right?†   (source)
  • Use this fire to cleanse our hearts as well as our homes, and deliver us at last from the wrath of the disease that assaults us.†   (source)
  • She had the look of someone who was seriously considering an assault.†   (source)
  • America was at peace, but the Marines had been practicing amphibious assaults against Caribbean islands for over sixteen years by now.†   (source)
  • He paused, knowing that there was likely nothing he could do to stop their assault.†   (source)
  • My neck twinged with the image of the hundreds of tiny spiders waiting to assault me.†   (source)
  • He must mount his assault with the skill and ruthlessness of a military operation.†   (source)
  • He fights recklessly, almost frenziedly, and I easily evade his assault.†   (source)
  • This assault brought instant rebuttal.†   (source)
  • She's not much worried about an assault, and she keeps only a minimal garrison of her private guard at Ephrata.†   (source)
  • For while our noses and lungs feasted on nature's goodness, our eyes were assaulted by evidence of her savagery.†   (source)
  • But now, with the most tumultuous decade of the century between him and ourselves, a decade in which reason has been assailed and assaulted beyond the wildest beliefs of the fifties, I think that in this Chautauqua based on his discoveries we can understand a little better what he was talking about — a solution for it all — if only that were true — so much of it's lost there's no way of knowing.†   (source)
  • And there on the platform I too had stridden and debated, a student leader directing my voice at the highest beams and farthest rafters, ringing them, the accents staccato upon the ridgepole and echoing back with a tinkling, like words hurled to the trees of a wilderness, or into a well of slate-gray water; more sound than sense, a play upon the resonances of buildings, an assault upon the temples of the ear: Ha!†   (source)
  • I honestly believed I could prevent any serious assault on you.†   (source)
  • Parliament will commence, and hordes of families will begin their assault on our fair city for parties and teas, concerts, derbies, and entertainments of all sorts.†   (source)
  • "Assault, battery, and false imprisonment," the sheriff continued.†   (source)
  • There were two Kleynhans brothers on the island, both reputed to have viciously assaulted prisoners.†   (source)
  • I say "unfortunately" not because I didn't want to help him, but because I knew I wasn't exactly the best candidate to stage a Schwarzeneggerstyle commando assault on the Bedoowan palace and fight my way out with Uncle Press in tow.†   (source)
  • Otherwise, they'd put me away for a long time: assaulting an officer, resisting arrest.†   (source)
  • Even the greens, her favorite shades of greens, flee the trees and assault her with luminosity.†   (source)
  • The cafeteria slipped out of focus, the dizzying roar of voices assaulting her from all sides.†   (source)
  • Kids are typically found at most targets we assault, so this was an issue we were very familiar with.†   (source)
  • Under prolonged assault they come apart.†   (source)
  • Her physical assaults no longer hurt me.†   (source)
  • We were prepared to get you by open, armed assault on that Institute or on the Wayne-Falkland, if necessary.†   (source)
  • If he assaults me, what can I do?†   (source)
  • He had estimated that it would take fifteen minutes for the assault boats to cross the river; twenty-five had passed now, and there was neither sign nor sound of them.†   (source)
  • it was an assault carrier.†   (source)
  • After the initial assault on the clan, the surviving gnomes scattered down the many corridors of their mazework mines.†   (source)
  • Article 9080: Any person in the Military Forces who strikes or assaults, or attempts to strike or assault —†   (source)
  • I have spoken with people who have been assaulted and brutalized by their own comrades—and parents who've had to attend their own children's funerals.†   (source)
  • Regardless of his appearance, he might be a cop, in which case assaulting him ensured serious consequences.†   (source)
  • I would have been ready for a full-on assault of charm and creative come-ons, but I'm completely unprepared for the utterly guileless apology I'm getting.†   (source)
  • His right forearm shattered, he fires with the left, the butt of his assault rifle wedged into his armpit.†   (source)
  • Our numbers seem to hold them back from physical assaults, but more shouting matches are starting to break out along the border that is quickly forming.†   (source)
  • Even though Kay paid off the bar owners, I didn't know whether there were still arrest warrants out for me—assault and all that stuff.†   (source)
  • Captain Chris DiNote, commander of the assault boat wing.†   (source)
  • A twenty-three-year-old printer from Philadelphia, a private in the 71st Pennsylvania wounded while helping to repel Pickett's assault at Gettysburg, wrote to his father that any sacrifice was worth the cost, "for what is home with all its endearments, if we have not a country freed from every vestige of the anarchy, and the tyrannical and blood thirsty despotism which threatens on every side to overwhelm us?"†   (source)
  • You just assaulted me for saying I should be the one to help out with Mom and Dad.†   (source)
  • The guard assaulted her, tasted her blood.†   (source)
  • So it was that I found myself in the mid-nineteen seventies in another small house, this time in Co. Wicklow south of Dublin, with a young family of my own and a slightly less imposing radio set, listening to the rain in the trees and to the news of bombings closer to home-not only those by the Provisional IRA in Belfast but equally atrocious assaults in Dublin by loyalist paramilitaries from the north.†   (source)
  • Unlike other cities in the region, including Savannah and Columbia, Charleston never had to endure the full fury of an assault by the armies of William Tecumseh Sherman.†   (source)
  • We liked our newspapers with pictures of beach girls and headlines about cases of indecent assault, and no government was wise enough to stop us having them that way.†   (source)
  • There was some genuine worry about my traveling alone, open to attack, robbery, assault.†   (source)
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